Hundreds of farmers and cattle enthusiasts from across Ireland gathered in Rathdowney, Co. Laois, on Wednesday evening, 5 ...

A big talking point amongst farmers this autumn has been exporter demand for top-quality, continental-bred weanlings and ...

"Belgian blue cattle have a natural mutation in myostatin causing a 20 to 25 percent increase in muscle mass, and mice overexpressing myostatin exhibit a two-fold increase in skeletal muscle mass. But ...

Super-muscly livestock have been produced before. But these animals, like the famous Belgian Blue cattle, are products of meticulous breeding, and not genetic engineering. Belgian Blue bull. Owing to ...

Belgian Blue cattle are hulking animals that provide unusually large amounts of prized, lean cuts of beef, the result of decades of selective breeding. Now, a team of scientists from South Korea and ...